Diagnostic Potential of Systemic Eosinophil-Associated Cytokines and Growth Factors in IBD

Table 1

Correlation between eosinophil-associated cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors and disease activity.

Cytokine	Clinical activity		Endoscopic activity in UC
	CD (CDAI)	UC (Mayo)
Eotaxin	0.28,	ns	ns
GM-CSF	0.30,	0.33,	0.56,
IL4	0.35,	ns	ns
IL5	0.38,	ns	ns
IL8	0.38,	ns	−0.38,
IL12(p70)	0.35,	0.511,	0.49,
IL13	ns	ns	ns
IFNγ	0.25,	0.45,	0.55,
RANTES	0.24,	ns	ns
TNFα	0.22,	ns	ns
hsCRP	0.40,	0.66,	0.46,

ns: not significant.